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WHOM THE LORD LOVETH 



WHOM THE LORD 
LOVETH 



CONSOLING THOUGHTS FOR EVERY 
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POOR SUFFERING HEARTS 
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" My Photograph." 



WHOM THE LORD LOVETH 




FIRST 




OME to me, all you that labor 
and are heavy burdened, and 
I will refresh you. 

Matt. 11:28 



SECOND 

O my Lord! How true it is that he 
who shall render you a service is im- 
mediately rewarded by a great cross. 
And what a priceless reward it is, if 
they who truly love Thee only knew 
the value of it at the time. 

St. Teresa 

THIRD 

If we are well with God all is well 
with us, though the thickest darkness 
of adversity be round about us. If we 



Whom the Lord hoveth January 

are not well with Him, nothing is well 
with us, though the best and brightest 
be at our feet. 

Father Faber 

FOURTH 

The only way to sanctity is the way 
of suffering. 

St. Alphonsus Liguori 

FIFTH 

Do not fear the Cross. . . . Without 
it you cannot find Christ. With it you 
will find the help and consolation of His 
open Heart. Without Christ the cross 
is hard, dead, crushing wood. With 
Christ the Cross is strong as God, sweet 
as love, tender as a tear. 

Father Kane, S.J. 
SIXTH 

How can I be mistrustful or even 
anxious? My lots are in Thy Hands. 

Mother M. Loyola 



Whom the Lord hoveth January 

SEVENTH 

Jesus is the one Friend who alone 
remains to us when all else forsakes us. 

Pere Lacordaire, O.P. 
EIGHTH 

Do not forecast or alarm yourself. 
Not half the things you look for will 
ever come to pass and the other half 
will be light to bear and God will bear 
both you and your crosses together. 

Cardinal Manning 
NINTH 

As the ring is the sign of marriage so 
is adversity, both corporal and spiritual, 
patiently borne for the love of God 
a most true pledge of Divine election and 
is like the marriage of the soul with God. 

St. Gertrude 
TENTH 

Help me, oh, my God, and I will not 
fear how much soever I may be oppressed. 

Imitation 

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Whom the Lord hoveth January 

ELEVENTH 

Thorns give forth balm, and the Cross 
sweetness, but we must squeeze the thorns 
and press the Cross to our hearts to make 
them distil the fragrance which is within 
them. 

Cure d'Ars 
TWELFTH 

Every sorrow which separates us from 
this world brings us nearer to God. 

Mgr. Henry Bolo 
THIRTEENTH 

Think often of eternity and remember 
that the humblest, the poorest, the most 
despised on earth will be the most glori- 
fied in Heaven. 

St. John of the Cross 

FOURTEENTH 

The great characteristic of sanctity 
is love of suffering, as its peculiar seal 
is spiritual joy; one produces the other. 

Pere de Ravignan 



Whom the Lore? hoveth January 

FIFTEENTH 

As soon as any affliction befalls you, 
say, "O God! how good you are to help 
me and enrich me for heaven; I should 
not like when death comes to be quite 
without some little merit to offer you." 

St. Francis de Sales 
SIXTEENTH 

The greater is our suffering and the 
less it is known to others, the more it 
makes Thee smile, O my God! 

Sceur Thkrlse 

SEVENTEENTH 

So tired! so tired! 

A cry of half despair; 
Look! at your side — 

And see Who standeth there! 

Your Father! Hush! 

A heart beats in His breast 
Now rise and rush 

Within His arms — and rest. 

Father Ryan 

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Whom the Lord hoveth January 

EIGHTEENTH 

The more we fear crosses the more 

reason we have to think we stand in 

need of them. Let us not therefore be 

dejected when the hand of God Iayeth 

heavy ones upon us. 7-, 7 

J r Fenelon 

NINETEENTH 

I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be 

A pleasant road; 
I do not ask that Thou wouldst take 
from me 

Aught of its load. 

I do not ask my cross to understand, 

My way to see; 

Better in darkness just to feel Thy hand, 

And follow Thee. aj i -j r> 

Adelaide Procter 

TWENTIETH 

O Jesus! Thou hast suffered so much 
for me, let me therefore suffer for Thee! 

St. Aloysius 
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Whom the Lord Loveth January 

TWENTY-FIRST 

We should thank God not only for the 

temporal favors that He vouchsafes to 

send us, but even for the afflictions and 

humiliations with which He visits us. 

We should bless Him, not only when as 

a Father He fondles us, but also when as 

a physician He holds to our lips the cup 

of sorrow and tribulation. We should 

kiss the hand that strikes, as well as the 

hand that caresses us; for whether He 

smiles or caresses, He is always our 

Father. n ?• 7 r . LL 

Cardinal Gibbons 

TWENTY-SECOND 

There is nothing to do here but lovingly 
to endure all that God sends us; blindly 
to accept in advance all that it may 
please Him to send in future. 

Father Ramiire, S.J. 
TWENTY-THIRD 

What is resignation? It is placing 
God between ourselves and pain. 

Madame Swetchine 



Whom the Lord Lovet h January 

TWENTY-FOURTH 

Look up towards Christ and stretch 
yourself out, defenceless, upon the Cross 
on which He died and on which you must 
sacrifice yourself with Him. 

1 Pere Didon, O.P. 

TWENTY-FIFTH 

But if doing well, you suffer patiently 
this is thanksworthy before God. For 
unto this are you called: because Christ 
also suffered for us, leaving you an ex- 
ample that you should follow His steps. 

Saint Peter 
TWENTY-SIXTH 

One of the things that strikes me is the 
immense amount of spiritual funds thrown 
away in the world by people not making 
good use of the daily trials and worries 
of this life. , , . Tr . 

Mother Henrietta Kerr 

TWENTY-SEVENTH 

My God! I believe so firmly that Thou 
watchest over all who hope in Thee and 

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Whom the Lord hoveth January 

that we can want for nothing when we 
rely upon Thee in all things, that I am 
resolved for the future to have no anxi- 
eties, and to cast all my cares upon Thee. 

Father de la Colombifre 

TWENTY-EIGHTH 

I try my best to carry without much 
complaining and in a practical way, for 
my poor soul's sanctification, the long 
foreseen miseries of the disease, which, 
after all, is a providential agent to detach 
the heart from all earthly affection and 
prompts much the desire of a Christian 
soul to be united — the sooner the better 
— with Him who is her only life. 

Father Damien (in one of his last letters) 

TWENTY-NINTH 

Let us never ask of God precisely 
our own ease by delivery from our tribu- 
lation, but pray for his aid and comfort 
by which ways Himself shall best like. 

Blessed Thomas More 



Whom the Lord Loveth January 

THIRTIETH 

O my Jesus, give me to understand how 
full of Thy love is every day of my life. 
How every breath that buffets me, every 
creature that hurts me, every pang that 
troubles me, is only a messenger of Thine 
to make me lift my heart up out of the 
mists of worldly existence to Thee who 
art my all. 

Bishop Hedley 

THIRTY-FIRST 

Welcome then Time's threshing pain, 
And the furrows where each grain 
Like a Samson, blossom shorn 
Waits the resurrection morn. 

Father Tabb 



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FEBRUARY 

FIRST 

[J RE not five sparrows sold for 

two farthings, and not one 

of them is forgotten before 

God. Yea the very hairs of 

your head are all numbered. Fear not 

therefore, you are of more value than 

many sparrows. T 7 r 

J r Luke 12:6, 7 

SECOND 

It is God alone that your heart needs. 

Do not seek for compensation in the 

affection of creatures. 

Venerable Mother Barat 
THIRD 

Let all thy care be to possess thy soul 
in peace and tranquillity. Let no accident 
be to thee a cause of ill humor. 

St. Vincent Ferrer 



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"Whom the Lore? Lovetb February 

FOURTH 

O my God, I know not what must come 
to me to-day; but I am certain that 
nothing can happen to me which Thou 
hast not foreseen, decreed and ordained 
from all eternity; this is sufficient for me. 

Venerable Giuseppe Maria Pignatelli 

FIFTH 

Patience, abnegation, the ready accep- 
tance of the Cross, are the great lessons 
the Son of God sets before us. Those 
who learn them well and imprint them 
upon their hearts belong to the first 
class in the school of Jesus Crucified. 

St. Vincent de Paul 

SIXTH 

Death may shatter many joys, many 
projects, many hopes; it cannot sever 
the bonds which unite an immortal soul 
to the souls it loves immortally. 

Abbe Perreyve 

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Whom the Lord hoveth February 

SEVENTH 

Why remain thus sad and inactive? 
Why wear thyself out in the anguish of 
sadness? Be brave, arise, do violence 
to thyself, meditate on the Passion of 
Christ and thou wilt overcome thy grief. 

Blessed Henry Suso 

EIGHTH 

Nothing matters in this world, except 
the doing of God's will. 

Mgr. Robert Hugh Benson 

NINTH 

Dearest of Masters! and we go to Him 
and then and not before and there and 
not elsewhere we are at rest for His 
bosom is the weary man's own house, his 
very own delightful home. 

Father Faber 

TENTH 

Lord Jesus, to Thee I confide my sor- 
rows and I wish to bear them for Thy 

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Whom the Lore? hoveth February 

sake. My fears I cast into Thy Heart, 
my anxieties I abandon to Thee. Thou 
wilt look after them. 

Father Xavier Gautrelet, S.J. 



ELEVENTH 

If you wish to be a disciple of Jesus 
Christ you must live in suffering for 
"the servant is not greater than his 
Master." 

Venerable J. Tauler 

TWELFTH 

Troubles and trials God never allows 
but with such previous aim and actual 
ordering as makes them, when we bear 
them as we ought, bud in joy and ripen 
into happy harvest. 

Father Kane, S.J. 

THIRTEENTH 

One more sacrifice is asked of us; 
but does not our Lord prove those He 
loves so as to make them more worthy 



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Whom the Lord Loveth February 

of Himself? A cross is given to us — 
Let us embrace it generously and thank 

Blessed Theophane Venard 

FOURTEENTH 

Love Jesus and keep Him for thy friend 
Who, when all go away will not leave 
thee or suffer thee to perish in the end. 

FIFTEENTH Imitation 

It is not God's way that great blessings 
should descend without the sacrifice first 
of great suffering. 

Cardinal Newman 
SIXTEENTH 

We rejoice not only in the hope of the 
glory of the sons of God, but we glory 
also in tribulations, knowing that tribu- 
lation worketh patience, and patience 
trial, and trial hope, and hope confoundeth 
not, for the charity of God is poured forth 
in our hearts by the Holy Ghost who is 
given us. 

St. Paul, Romans 

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Whom the Lord hoveth February 

SEVENTEENTH 

"All which I took from thee I did but 
take, 
Not for thy harms, 
But just that thou might'st seek it in 
My arms. 
All which thy child's mistake 
Fancies as lost, I have stored for thee 
at home: 
Rise, clasp my Hand, and come! ,, 

Francis Thompson 

EIGHTEENTH 

When we feel us too faint, remember 
Christ's strength. In our fear, let us 
remember Christ's painful agony that 
Himself would (for our comfort) suffer 
before His passion, to the intent that no 
fear should make us despair. 

Blessed Thomas More 

NINETEENTH 

What is death? It is but the leap of a 
child springing into his Father's arms. 

Father Tesnieres, SSS., D.D. 
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Whom the Lord Loveth February 

TWENTIETH 

Learn to suffer and to be silent if you 
wish to live in peace and to attain to 
great virtue. 

St. John of the Cross 

TWENTY-FIRST 

As the priest reverently, devoutly, and 
lovingly gathers up from the paten the 
tiniest particles of the Host, so should 
you gather up all the thorns, the trials 
and the sufferings you meet on your way, 
to put them in the chalice of love along 
with the Precious Blood of the Saviour. 

Father Brisson 

TWENTY-SECOND 

The more we complain of our trials 
the heavier our burden grows; if on the 
contrary we humbly and lovingly bear 
them, the burden becomes light and 
agreeable. 

Blessed Egidius oj Assist 

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Whom the Lord Loveth February 

TWENTY-THIRD 

If God gives you an abundant harvest 
of trials, it is a sign of the great holiness 
to which He desires you to attain. 

St. Ignatius 

TWENTY-FOURTH 

Do not look at life's long sorrow; 

See how small each moment's pain; 
God will help thee for the morrow 

So each day begin again. 

Adelaide Procter 



TWENTY-FIFTH 

Jesus wishes to take entire possession 
of your heart; in order to do this He will 
make you suffer much . . . but then, 
what joy will flood your soul when you 
will have arrived at the happy moment 
of your entrance into Heaven! 

S&ur Therese 

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Whom the "Lord hoveth February 

TWENTY-SIXTH 

It is a great imperfection to complain 
unceasingly of little things. 

St. Francis de Sales 



TWENTY-SEVENTH 

Seek not for consolation but for the 
Cross, seek for work and not for rest, 
for bitterness rather than joy, for the 
least and not the most, for the worst 
and not the best, for poverty and not 
the possession of anything whatever. 

St. John of the Cross 



TWENTY-EIGHTH 

Internal peace resides, not in the senses 
but in the will. One keeps it in the midst 
of the bitterest sorrow so long as one's 
will remains firm and submissive. 

Fenelon 
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Whom the Lord hoveth February 

TWENTY-NINTH 

The most certain way of obtaining any 
grace from God is holy indifference and 
a complete resignation to His most Holy 
Will. 

St. Joseph oj Cupertino 



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FIRST 

HEN He saith to them: "My 
soul is sorrowful even unto 
death; stay you here and watch 
with me." And going a little 
farther He fell upon His face, praying, 
and saying: "My Father, if it be possible, 
let this chalice pass from me; nevertheless 
not as I will, but as Thou wilt." 

Matt. 26: 38, 39 



SECOND 

O my Creator, my eternal love, O 
my Father, my heavenly Father. Weary 
yet full of trust, worthless but truly 
loving Thee, my love and my rest are 
still in Thy Fidelity. 

Father Faber 



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'Whom the Lord hoveth March 

THIRD 

The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a 

broken heart, 
And saveth such as be of a contrite 

spirit. 
Many are the afflictions of the righteous, 
But the Lord delivereth him out of them 

Psalm xxxiv 



FOURTH 

The sufferings of this life bear no 
proportion to the greatness of the glory- 
to come. T - . 

Imitation 

FIFTH 

Trust and you will learn. Learn and 
you will love. Trust! with the conflict 
will come the courage. With the diffi- 
culty will come the help. With the trial 
will come the strength. With the temp- 
tation will come the grace. 

Father Kane, S.J. 



Whom the Lord hoveth March 

SIXTH 

Each suffering is a new flower added 
to the crown which is prepared for us 
in eternity. 

St. Alphonsus Liguori 
SEVENTH 

Let this dear Jesus be your nearest and 
dearest friend. Confide your trials to 
Him. Take everything as coming from 
His fatherly hand. 

Mother Aloysia Hardy 
EIGHTH 

Courage! Let us be generous in our 
sacrifices. 

Blessed Theophane Venard 
NINTH 

Be assured that you have entered into 
God's service only to be chiselled, polished 
and perfected each day by the hands of 
those with whom you live. Look upon 
them as so many individuals sent to you by 
God to sanctify you by training you, each 
one in his own way. 

St. John of the Cross 

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Whom the "Lord Loveth March 

TENTH 

Think of the crosses with which Jesus 
has laden you, for they are treasures 
which He has drawn from the depths of 
His riches and you must look upon them 
as wonderful proofs of His love. 

Fenelon 



ELEVENTH 

It matters little whether we are rich 
or poor, prosperous or unfortunate in 
the world, providing we are minting 
money for Heaven, by the practice of 
patience, resignation, honesty and the 
love of God. 

Cardinal Vaughan 

TWELFTH 

Though it may happen that a mother 
should be so hardened as to forget her 
own child, yet God promises He will 
never forget us. 

Venerable J. Tauler 

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Whom the Lore/ hoveth March 

THIRTEENTH 

Let nothing disturb thee, 
Let nothing affright thee; 
All things are passing; 
God only is changeless. 
Patience gains all things. 
Who hath God wanteth nothing — 
Alone God sufficeth. 

St. Teresa 
FOURTEENTH 

No good can be accomplished save by 
and with the Cross. 

Venerable Mother Barat 
FIFTEENTH 

O my God be blest when you afflict me. 
I love to be crushed, consumed, destroyed 
by Thee. Annihilate me more and more. 

General de Sonis 
SIXTEENTH 

If it happens that something grieves thee, 
no matter from what quarter it comes, be 
assured that while you love God, all will 
turn to your good. 

St. Francis de Sales 

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Whom the Lord Loveth March 

SEVENTEENTH 

Whom God wants to save, to that 

soul He sends suffering. T L ^ 7} 

& Joseph rarrell 

EIGHTEENTH 

The humiliations of the Cross are sweet 
to a soul which is sensible of what she owes 
to Him who was crucified for love of her. 

St. Bernard 
NINETEENTH 

God, give me patience in tribulation 
and grace in everything to conform my 
will to Thine, that I may truly say, 
"Thy will be done, on earth as it is in 

Blessed Thomas More 
(after having been sentenced to death) 

TWENTIETH 

The best of all prayers is that in which 
we ask that God's holy will be accom- 
plished both in ourselves and others. 

Venerable Louis oj Blois 

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Whom the Lord Loveth March 

TWENTY-FIRST 

The good God tells us that at the last 
day He will wipe all tears from our eyes; 
and doubtless the more tears there will 
be to wipe away, the greater will be 
our consolation, 

Sodur Therese 



TWENTY-SECOND 

Oh how great a grace it is to love and 
to suffer, to love while suffering and to 
suffer while loving! Let us never lose 
one of our crosses, but let us often say 
to ourselves: Courage! the time of suffer- 
ing is short, the love that suffering merits 
is eternal. 

Bossuet 



TWENTY-THIRD 

O my Lord, may I receive in good part 
the strokes of Thy hand, and may I be 
content to see that Thou dost not spare 



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my body from pains, for it is a great mark 
that Thou hast some good design over me. 

St. Lidwina 
TWENTY-FOURTH 

Divine Redeemer, make me to under- 
stand that afflictions here below are as 
flowers which promise to bear fruits of 
glory, and that our tears, like sacred oil, 
consecrate us to immortality. 

St. Gregory 
TWENTY-FIFTH 

As we can sanctify bodily pain - by the 
memory of the nails, so too can we sanctify 
spiritual pain by the memory of this 
darkness. (The dereliction of the Cross.) 

Mgr. Robert Hugh Benson 
TWENTY-SIXTH 

The adversities and tribulations of life 
are special graces, and those most to be 
desired. God reserves them for His dear- 
est friends. Receive them, then, as such 
with patience, constancy and joy. 

St. Joseph of Cupertino 

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Whom the Lord Loveth March 

TWENTY-SEVENTH 

What are afflictions, if righteously borne, 
but the raw material out of which we 
can weave the royal garment that we 
shall deserve to wear in heaven at the 
banquet of the great King. 

Cardinal Gibbons 



TWENTY-EIGHTH 

Being only the servants of Jesus Christ 
we must not refuse to suffer for our 
Master what our Master has already 
suffered for us. 

St. Paulina 



TWENTY-NINTH 

The flame of Divine love never rises 
higher than when it is fed with the wood 
of the Cross which the infinite charity 
of the Saviour uses to consummate His 
Sacrifice. 

St. Ignatius 

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Whom the Lord hoveth March 

THIRTIETH 

Raise, raise then your heart and your 
love a little towards the sweet and holy 
Cross which sweetens all pain. 

St. Catherine oj Siena 

THIRTY-FIRST 

Life is a burden; bear it; 

Life is a duty, dare it; 

Life is a thorn crown; wear it, 

Though it break your heart in twain; 

Though the burden crush you down; 

Close your lips, and hide your pain, 

First the Cross, and then, the Crown. 

Father Ryan 



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FIRST 




OD shall wipe away all tears 

from our eyes, and death shall 

be no more, nor mourning, 

nor crying, nor sorrow shall be 

any more; for the former things are passed 

away. 

Apoc. 21:4 

SECOND 

Raise your eyes and contemplate Jesus 
Christ on the Cross and you will see how 
trifling are all your sufferings. 

St. Teresa 

THIRD 

But if thou hast recourse to the ever- 
strong and subsisting Truth, thou shalt 
not be grieved when a friend departs 



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Whom the Lord hoveth April 

or dies. In Me the love of thy friend 
must stand; and for Me he is to be loved. 

Imitation, B. 3, Chap. XLII 

FOURTH 

Suffering is useful in every way. Suffer- 
ing teaches us to suffer, suffering teaches 
us to live, suffering teaches us to die. 

Madame Swetchine 

FIFTH 

O Lord, I return Thee thanks for the 
pains which I suffer; I pray that Thou 
add to them a hundred times more if 
such be Thy holy will. I shall rejoice 
that Thou art pleased to afflict me, 
without sparing my carcass here, for 
what sweeter comfort can I have than 
that Thy holy will be done. 

St. Francis of Assisi 

SIXTH 

Sufferings are the money with which 
one buys Heaven. 

Blessed Theophane Venard 

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Whom the Lord Loveth April 

SEVENTH 

I own that life would be intolerable 
to me if I had nothing to suffer for Jesus 
Christ; it is my only comfort in this 
world. 

St. John Francis Regis 

EIGHTH 

In all that crucifies your will and crosses 
your heart's desire; in all that against 
which men chafe and fret, and over which 
they lose their self control, you, when 
it befalls you, will say to yourselves: 
"I will gladly live and die under this 
Cross, if only I can be made like to the 
Sacred Heart of Jesus/ ' 

Cardinal Manning 

NINTH 

The Cross assures me of salvation, it 
is my refuge, my hope, and shall always 
be the object of my adoration. Crux 
Ave! 

St. Thomas Aquinas 

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Whom the Lord Loveth April 

TENTH 

For ah\ the surest way to God 
Is up the lonely stream of tears, 
That flow when bending 'neath His rod, 
And fill the tide of earthly years. 

Father Ryan 

ELEVENTH 

And now we see proven often, that in 
sore weather or sickness, by several pro- 
cessions God giveth gracious help. And 
many a man in his great pain and sick- 
ness, by calling upon God, is marvellously 
made whole. 

Blessed Thomas More 

TWELFTH 

It is certain that no flower can bear 
fruit unless it dies; so a person will 
commence to bear fruit in Jesus Christ 
in proportion as he renounces himself, 
abandons himself, and dies to himself 
and to all things. 

Venerable John Tauler 

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Wfeom the Lord Loveth April 

THIRTEENTH 

When you have looked awhile upon 
that wide Wound through which burst 
forth with blood a love, divine as God, 
yet human as your own heart, I may 
whisper "Trust." 

Father Kane, S.J. 
FOURTEENTH 

He who has really tasted of the true 
Cross can taste no bitterer pain, no 
keener joy. 

Cardinal Newman 
FIFTEENTH 

Our refrain is the hymn of suffering. 
Jesus offers us a very bitter chalice, 
let us not draw our lips away from it, 
but suffer in peace. To suffer in peace 
it is sufficient to will all that our Lord 

Wills. O -TLf \ 

ooeur Iherese 

SIXTEENTH 

God sends us afflictions for several 
reasons; first, to increase our merits; 
second, to preserve in us the grace of 

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God; third, to punish us for our sins; 
fourth, to show forth His glory and His 
other attributes. 

St. Anthony oj Padua 

SEVENTEENTH 

Earthly sorrows are the roots of heavenly 
joys. A cross is a crown begun. Suffer- 
ing is dearer to the saints than happiness, 
for the similitude of Christ has passed 
upon them. 

Father Faber 

EIGHTEENTH 

All can feel the God that smites, 
But ah! how few the God that loves! 

Francis Thompson 
NINETEENTH 

I adore all the evils of this life as so 
many sacraments. 

St. Anselm 

TWENTIETH 

In the narrow way to Heaven one 
suffers but one hopes, one suffers but one 
sees Heaven open, one suffers but one 

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desires to suffer, one loves God and one 
is beloved by Him. 

Fenelon 

TWENTY-FIRST 

Jesus Saviour of the World spare us; 
You to whom nothing is impossible save 
that You should not have compassion 
on the sorrowful. 

St. Gertrude 

TWENTY-SECOND 

My Lord and My Master, by Thy 
meekness extinguish the natural disturb- 
ance in my breast against those that 
injure me! By Thy lifting up of Thy 
Heart teach me how to make use of 
physical pain! By Thy silence help me 
to repress murmurs and complainings. 

Bishop Hedley 

TWENTY-THIRD 

I can do all things in Christ who 
strengtheneth me. 

St. Paul, Philip. 9 : 12 

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TWENTY-FOURTH 

Nothing can supply the place of the 
Cross or do its work. Where it stays 
long, and is well received, it chastens, 
strengthens, ennobles. It gives a refine- 
ment, a spiritual perception, a depth, 
a maturity, not found in souls that have 
come but slightly under its discipline. 

Mother M. Loyola 



TWENTY-FIFTH 

There is no wood more proper to en- 
kindle and feed the fire of divine love than 
the wood of the Cross. 



St. Ignatius Loyola 



TWENTY-SIXTH 

Indeed, God gives to the Catholic 
for every joy he renounces a thousand- 
fold more; for every darkness a hundred 
dawns; for every human relationship 
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heavenly, instead; for "lands and houses'* 
the whole earth which is His footstool; 
for every cross a crown. 

Mgr. Robert Hugh Benson 

TWENTY-SEVENTH 

The time of afflictions and contra- 
dictions is the beautiful harvest time, 
when the soul gathers in the richest 
benedictions of heaven; one day then is 
more profitable than six at another time. 

St. Francis de Sales 
TWENTY-EIGHTH 

When the soul seeks its consolation 
from God, He is always ready to give it 

to her - St. John oj the Cross 

TWENTY-NINTH 

Because Jesus was acquainted with 
grief, because He endured torments — 
to suffer as He suffered is a veritable 
joy to the soul filled with His holy love. 

Abbe A. Sandreau 

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THIRTIETH 

The Cross is the true and only ladder 
to Paradise; without the Cross this 
ascent is quite impossible. 

St. Rose oj Lima 



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FIRST 

HEN Jesus therefore had seen 
his mother and the disciple 
standing whom he loved, he 
saith to his mother: Woman, 
behold thy son. After that, he saith to 
the disciple: Behold thy mother. 

John 10 : 26, 27 
SECOND 

In dangers and afflictions think of 
Mary, pray to Mary; let her name be 
ever on thy lips and in thy heart; but to 
obtain the help of her prayers imitate 
the example of her life. 

St. Bernard 
THIRD 

Ah, Mary, who comforteth everyone, 
deign also to comfort me! 

St. Alpbonsus Liguori 



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FOURTH 

Jesus knows the extent of your immo- 
lation. He knows that the suffering of 
those you love increases your own; but 
He Himself has suffered this same martyr- 
dom to save our souls. He left His 
Mother, He saw that Immaculate Virgin 
standing at the foot of the Cross, her heart 
transfixed by a sword of sorrow. 

^ r ^ mrr Soeur Therese 

FIFTH 

Mary, see my heart is burdened, 
Take, oh take the weight away, 

Or help me, that I may not murmur 
If it is a cross you lay 

On my weak and trembling heart. 

^™™,,» Adelaide Procter 

SIXTH 

Like Mary we must be loving, sweet and 

patient with those who cause us any 

unhappiness, and laying our head with 

unrestrained and unashamed tears on 

our Lord's bosom, let us think quietly 

of God and Heaven. ~ iL ^ L 

Father raber 

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SEVENTH 

O afflicted Virgin! O soul great in 

virtues as in suffering! O, my Mother, 

have mercy on me! 

St. Alpbonsus Liguori 

EIGHTH 

It is Mary who upholds us in our 
sufferings; she fights for us and makes us 
partake of the fruit of her victories. 

St. Bonaventure 
NINTH ww* * 

Holy Virgin, in the midst of thy days 
of glory, do not forget the sorrows of 
earth. Cast a loving glance on those 
who are in suffering, who struggle against 
difficulties and cease not to press their 
lips to the bitterness of life. 

Abbe Perreyve 
TENTH 

Mary, harbinger of day! hope 
of- the pilgrim! lead us still as thou hast 
led; in the dark night, across the bleak 
wilderness* guide us on to our Lord 
Jesus, guide us home. Cardinal Newman 

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ELEVENTH 

If we would but throw ourselves more 
upon Mary than we do, with the whole 
weight of love, with the whole weight 
of our necessities. She is loving each 
one of us at this moment with a sur- 
prising love. No friend, no parent, no 
saint, no angel has ever been to us what 
she has been. 

Father Faber 
TWELFTH 

As much as the sun surpasses in splendor 
all the planets does Mary surpass in 
sufferings all the other martyrs. 

St. Basil 
THIRTEENTH 

If the winds of temptation arise, look 
at your star, invoke Mary; if the great- 
ness of your crimes troubles you, think 
of Mary. 

St. Bernard 
FOURTEENTH 

O Mother of Sorrows, Queen of martyrs 
and of sufferings, thou hast so wept for 
thy Son dead for my salvation; but of 

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what use will thy tears be to me if I am 
lost eternally? By the merits of thy 
sorrows obtain for me true repentance 
for my sins and a real change of life* 

St. Alphonsus Liguori 
FIFTEENTH 

Understand what must be the joy and 

glory of Mary in the celestial Home when 

even in this valley of tears and sojourn 

of sorrows, the very remembrance of her 

name makes one taste such sweet joy 

and pure delight. ~ j- r o- 

r & ot. Bernardine oj oiena 

SIXTEENTH 

The Passion of Mary 

Yet Christian sadness is divine 
Even as thy patient sadness was: 

The salt tears in our life's dark wine 
Fell in it from the saving Cross. 

Bitter the bread of our repast; 

Yet doth a sweet the bitter leaven 
Our sorrow in the shadow cast 

Around it by the light of Heaven. 

Francis Thompson 

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SEVENTEENTH 

Holy .Mary, do not refuse your help 
to those in sorrow, uphold the courage 
of the weak and console those who are 
afflicted: pray for the whole people so 
that all those who have recourse to thee 
in their needs may feel the effects of thy 
all powerful protection. 

St. Augustine 
EIGHTEENTH 

Bear this in mind; it was because of 
his mother, "being moved with mercy 
towards her" that Jesus raised the dead 
man at the gate of Nain. Be careful 
when you desire any great favor, to 
implore the intercession of your mother, 
of Mary. 

Father Dignam, S.J. 
NINETEENTH 
O Lady Mary, thy bright crown 
Is no mere crown of majesty; 
For with the reflex of His own 

Resplendent thorns Christ circled thee. 

Francis Thompson 
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TWENTIETH 

O blessed confidence! O safe refuge! 
The Mother of God is our Mother; the 
Mother of Him in whom we hope, and 
whom alone we fear, is our Mother; 
the Mother of Him, who alone can save 
or destroy is our Mother. St. Anselm 

TWENTY-FIRST 

O my sovereign Mistress who hath 
received such cruel wounds upon Cal- 
vary, wound our hearts, renew in them 
thy dolorous Passion and that of thy 
divine Son, unite our hearts to thy 
wounded heart that they may participate 
in the same wounds. St. Bonaventure 

TWENTY-SECOND 

Most holy Mary, My Lady ... all 
my hope and consolation, all my trials 
and miseries, my life and the end of my 
life I commit to thee, that through thy 
most holy intercession and by thy merits 
all my actions may be directed and 
ordered according to thy will and that of 
thy divine Son. St. Aloysius 

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TWENTY-THIRD 

Though Mother of God and Queen of 
Heaven, she remembers that she is my 
Mother, and thinks it the simplest thing 
in the world to succour me in my need. 

Mother M. Loyola 
TWENTY-FOURTH 
Sweet blessed beads! I would not part 
With one of you for richest gem 
• •••••••••♦ 

For many and many a time in grief 
My weary fingers wandered round 
Thy circled chain, and always found 
In some Hail Mary, sweet relief. 

Father Ryan 
TWENTY-FIFTH 

It is certainly Mary who after Jesus 
has more solicitude, more tenderness, 
more charity, more love and more good- 
ness for us than any other. It is she who 
upholds us in our troubles! she fights for 
us and afterwards makes us enjoy the 
fruit of her victories. 

St. Bonaventure 

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TWENTY-SIXTH 

Ask for great favors and for all graces in 
the name of Christ's Mother; remind Our 
Lord of her agony, when, her soul pierced 
with a sword of sorrow, she stood at the 
foot of the cross. Father Dignam, S.J. 

TWENTY-SEVENTH 

O my beloved Jesus! O Mary, my 
beloved Lady! give me the grace to suffer 
and to die for love of you. 

St. Alphonsus Liguori 

TWENTY-EIGHTH 

The Queen of Virgins is Mother of 
Mercy also and comfortress of the afflicted 
and though her whole life was a hidden 
life . . . she knew how to wed action 
to contemplation and displayed no im- 
potent or sterile sympathy for even the 
temporal wants of her brethren — going 
in haste over the mountains of Judea 
to help the mother of the Precursor, 
and whispering to her Divine Son at the 
marriage feast "They have no wine." 

Father Russell, S.J. 

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TWENTY-NINTH 

Therefore O tender Lady, Queen Mary, 

Thou gentleness that dost enmoss and 

drape 

The Cross's rigorous austerity, 

Wipe thou the blood from wounds that 

needs must gape. ^ . ~ L 

& r rrancis Thompson 

THIRTIETH 

Most holy Virgin obtain for me the 

grace of invoking the name of thy Son 

Jesus in all my necessities, together with 

thine own, my Mother Mary; but let 

me invoke them always with confidence 

and love. Ci n L T . 

bt. Alphonsus Liguori 

THIRTY-FIRST 

His compassion restored to the widow 

of Nairn the son for whom she wept. 

Who can tell if Jesus, seeing this woman 

in tears, did not think of His own mother, 

likewise a widow, who was to become the 

Queen of Martyrs for weeping over the 

death of the most adorable of Sons. 

Mgr. Henry Bolo 

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AKE up my yoke upon you, and 

learn of me, because I am meek 

and humble of heart: and you 

shall find rest in your souls. 

For my yoke is sweet, and my burden 



light. 



Matt, ii : 29, 30 



SECOND 

In all your sufferings unite your heart 
to the Heart of Jesus Crucified. 

Blessed Margaret Mary 
THIRD 

We who murmur and repine and fret 
all day long if anything goes against us, 
call ourselves disciples of the Sacred 
Heart, and yet we have not the will to 
bear the Cross, much less to love it. 

Cardinal Manning 

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"Whom the Lord hoveth June 

FOURTH 

One can never have too great a con- 
fidence in God who is so powerful and 
so merciful. One can obtain all one 
hopes from Him. 

Sceur Therese 

FIFTH 

Even though pain or trial or the loss 
of those you love appears to circle you 
with night and tempest, His Heart's love 
watches and waits and will bring you in 
God's own way and in God's own time a 
great calm. 

Father Kane, S.J. 
SIXTH 

My Jesus! may I die for love of Thee, 
who didst vouchsafe to die for love of me. 

St. Francis of Assisi 
SEVENTH 

The oftener we have given up our own 
will during the day, the nearer we are 
in the evening to the Heart of Jesus. 

Venerable Mother Barat 

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EIGHTH 

True abandonment which makes God 
look upon us with love, consists in leaving 
the past to His ever merciful justice, and 
in confiding the future to His fatherly- 
Providence. 

Father Surin, S.J. 
NINTH 

If we would give full pleasure to the 
Heart of God, we must endeavor to con- 
form ourselves to His divine will, and not 
only conform ourselves but make our- 
selves one with His appointments. 

St. Alphonsus Liguori 
TENTH 

Let us draw from our Crosses, fountains 
of love, comfort and confidence. 

Fenelon 
ELEVENTH 

When any pain, affliction or morti- 
fication shall befall you, say to yourself: 
"Take what the Sacred Heart sends thee 
to unite thee to Himself ' and endeavor 
specially to preserve that peace of heart 

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which is worth more than all imaginable 
treasures and which is preserved by having 
no longer any will of your own. 

Blessed Margaret Mary 

TWELFTH 

But they that love Jesus for Jesus' 
sake and not for any comfort of their 
own, bless Him no less in tribulation and 
anguish of heart than in the greatest 
consolation. 

Imitation, B. 2, Chap. XI 

THIRTEENTH 

Blessed is he who suffers temptation 
for when he shall have borne this trial 
he shall receive the crown of life. 

St. James 

FOURTEENTH 

Lord, take my pain, my willing accept- 
ance of the Cross that weighs upon me 
now, as proof of my love. By the tender- 
ness of Thy Heart, by thy tears over the 

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grave of Lazarus, draw me closer to Thee 
by this trial and by every trial of my 
life. 

Mother M. Loyola 

FIFTEENTH 

One thing alone I know, — that accord- 
ing to our need, so will be our strength. 
. . . We shall not be left orphans; we 
shall have within us the strength the 
Paraclete promised to the Church and to 
every member of it. 

Cardinal Newman 

SIXTEENTH 

God sendeth us also such tribulation 
sometimes, because His pleasure is to 
have us pray unto Him for help. 

Blessed Thomas More 

SEVENTEENTH 

Now at this very moment He loves us 
both with the infinite pity of His Godhead 
and with the kind sympathy of His 
human Heart. . . . He has a human 

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Heart, for He wept. It is the Heart 
which His Virgin Mother gave to Him, 
and which He hath given to us to be our 
help, our consolation and our love. 

Father Kane, S.J. 
EIGHTEENTH 

Beg for the courage in prayer which our 
agonizing Saviour merited for you in His 
sufferings in Gethsemane and upon Cal- 
vary. Pray, for prayer is the strength 
that saves, the courage which perseveres, 
the mystic bridge cast over the abyss 
which joins the soul with God. 

Father Ravignan, S.J. 
NINETEENTH 

Within Thy Saviour's Heart 

Place all thy care, 
And learn, O weary soul, 
Thy rest is there. 

Adelaide Procter 
TWENTIETH 

We are told that Jesus wept at the tomb 
of Lazarus. Jesus wept to show that He 
had not only a divine Personality, but 

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also a human Heart, full of human sym- 
pathy for the suffering and sorrowing, 
that He came to sanctify sorrow and to 
be the great consoler of the disconsolate. 

Cardinal Gibbons 
TWENTY-FIRST 

There is nothing sweeter than to love 
God, but the greatest sign of love is to 
suffer for what one loves: to suffer for 
God is therefore true joy, it is supreme 
felicity. 

St. Ignatius 

TWENTY-SECOND 

The more consolation from creatures 
the less from God. This is the invariable 
rule. God is shy. He loves to come to 
lonely hearts which other loves do not 
fill. This is why bereaved hearts, out- 
raged hearts, hearts misunderstood, hearts 
that have broken with kith and kin, and 
natal place, and the grave of father and 
mother, are the hearts of His predilection. 

Father Faber 

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TWENTY-THIRD 

A cross loved is only half a cross because 
love sweetens everything. Happy the soul 
that suffers much and suffers in the 
proper spirit. 

Father de Lehen y S.J. 

TWENTY-FOURTH 

But if you partake of the sufferings of 
Christ, rejoice that when His glory shall 
be revealed, you may also be glad with 
exceeding joy. 

St. Peter 
TWENTY-FIFTH 

You will find in the Sacred Heart of 
Jesus the remedy for your evils, strength 
in weakness and a refuge in all your 
necessities. 

Blessed Margaret Mary 
TWENTY-SIXTH 

So long as one willingly accepts the 
evil one suffers it is no longer an evil. 

Fenelon 

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TWENTY-SEVENTH 

Look upon the Cross. . . . There is 
yet time to place the present under the 
shadow of our Saviour's outstretched arms 
of mercy, under the shelter of His Sacred 
Heart. 

Father Kane, S.J. 

TWENTY-EIGHTH 

Look upon the Cross and learn to love 
the Friend who loved you first, for He 
loved you from eternity and who loved 
you most for He loved you unto the 
Cross. 

Father Kane, S.J. 

TWENTY-NINTH 

Be glad, sad heart! 'tis well; 
He made and He keeps love's promise, 
With thee, all days to dwell. 



For the Heart that bled on Calvary 
Still beats in the holy place. 

Father Ryan 
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THIRTIETH 

So, little by little, as we go through 
life, following with a hundred infidelities 
and a thousand blunders, with open 
defiance and secret sins, yet following 
as Peter followed through the glare of the 
High Priest's fire, to the gloom of peni- 
tence where Christ's eyes could shine — 
as we go, blinded by our sorrow, to the 
ecstacy of His joy . . . little by little 
we find that there is no garden in which 
He does not walk, no door that can shut 
Him out, no country road where our 
hearts cannot burn in His company. 

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FIRST 

ND rising up, he rebuked the 
wind, and said to the sea: 
Peace, be still. And the wind 
ceased: and there was made a 
great calm. And he said to them: Why 
are you fearful? Have you not faith yet? 

Mark 4: 39-40 

SECOND 

Let us love our crosses; seen with the 
eyes of love, they are all of gold and 
though our Lord is dead there in the midst 
of nails and thorns, there is found in the 
cross a collection of precious pearls that 
will compose our crown of glory, if we 
courageously carry our crown of thorns. 

St. Francis de Sales 



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THIRD 

What one must put as a star above one's 
life, is duty, the perfecting of one's soul. 
What does it matter if one suffers, so 
long as one does good? What does it 
matter if one is drowned in a deluge of 
tears if only one advances in virtue? 
What does death itself matter, so long 
as one loves God and dwells in Him? 

FOURTH Rere Didon y O.P. 

Learn to suffer something for Jesus 
Christ without letting others perceive it. 

77 T I S ' l 'TT Of. 1 €T€SCL 

It is with our Saviour that we are nailed 
to the Cross and it is He who nails us to 
it by His grace. 

Fenelon 
SIXTH 

As human love turns joy into pain and 
suffers in the midst of ecstasy, so Divine 
love turns pain into joy and exults and 
reigns upon the Cross. 

Mgr. Robert Hugh Benson 

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SEVENTH 

Jesus is gone before thee, carrying 
His cross, and He died for thee upon the 
Cross, that thou mayest also bear thy 
cross, and love to die on the Cross. Be- 
cause if thou die with Him, thou shalt 
also live with Him; and if thou art 
His companion in suffering, thou shalt 
also partake in His glory. 

Imitation, B. 2, Ch. XII 

EIGHTH 

Believe it with a firm faith, nothing in 
this world unites us more closely to God 
than that which detaches us from our- 
selves. 

Father de Ponlevoy, S.J. 

NINTH 

Wish for nothing else here below but 
new humiliations and sufferings as re- 
wards for your good deeds and hard work. 

St. John of the Cross 

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TENTH 

Nothing is done, nothing happens either 
in the material or the moral world, which 
God has not foreseen from all eternity, 
which He has not willed, or at least per- 
mitted. 

Father Henry Ramiere, S.J. 

ELEVENTH 

He who bears troubles with patience 
for God's sake will soon arrive to great 
perfection; he will be master of this 
world and will have one foot in the other. 

Blessed Egidius of Assist 
TWELFTH 

Do not fear to look upon the Cross. It 
is the Shadow of God's love which brings 
us sweetness through its sadness. 

Father Kane, S.J. 
THIRTEENTH 

Hope not to enter into an intimate 
union with the God of sanctity, without 
first being sanctified by the Cross. 

Pere Olier 

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FOURTEENTH 

But there is God 

Every-everywhere 
Beneath His rod 

Kneel thee adown in prayer. 

For grief is God's own kiss 

Upon a soul. 
Look up! the Sun of bliss 

Will shine where storm clouds roll! 

Father Ryan 

FIFTEENTH 

Sorrow and suffering are found every- 
where, they are the daily bread of each 
of us. Happy those who know how to 
turn them to advantage. Such souls 
will be amply recompensed hereafter. 

Blessed Theophane Venard 

SIXTEENTH 

O Jesus how sweet is Thy hand even 
when You try me most! Let me be cruci- 
fied, but crucified by Thee! 

General de Sonis 

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SEVENTEENTH 

We are here to suffer and the pain of 
the Cross must find us somewhere. People 
are so blind that they think suffering an 
evil and do not know its real and eternal 
value. 

Cardinal Vaughan 
EIGHTEENTH 

It is the Cross that develops all the 
possibilities of human nature. But where- 
ever it is present, God is there, watching 
to see that its pressure is neither too 
heavy nor too prolonged. 

Mother M. Loyola 
NINETEENTH 

We are God's own creatures and God 
is our own God. All else will fail us but 
He never will. All is love with Him, 
love in light and love in darkness, love 
always and everywhere. 

Father Faber 
TWENTIETH 

The privilege of suffering is perhaps 
the only advantage we have above the 

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angels. They may indeed be the com- 
panions of Our Lord, but they cannot be 
the companions of His death. 

Bossuet 

TWENTY-FIRST 

We have but one thing to do here 
below; it is to throw to Jesus the flowers 
of little sacrifices and win Him by caresses. 

Soeur Therese 



TWENTY-SECOND 

O to love! to go! to die to one's self! 
to reach God! 

St. Augustine 

TWENTY-THIRD 

We must be kind towards suffering; 
it is a faithful and devoted friend that 
brings us true blessings; it gives us 
solid virtue, which detaches us from every- 
thing. 

Pere de Ravignan, S.J. 

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TWENTY-FOURTH 

I try to make slowly my way of the 
Cross, and hope to be soon on the top of 
my Golgotha. 

Father Damien 

TWENTY-FIFTH 

This is God's goodness that because 
in wealth we remember Him not but 
forget to pray to him, sendeth*us sorrow 
and sickness to force us to draw towards 
Him, and compelleth us to call upon 
Him and pray for release of our pain. 

Blessed Thomas More 
TWENTY-SIXTH 

Sorrow and sanctity are two sisters; 
tears and divine grace flow together 
from the same source and mingle their 
waters in a common stream. 

Abbe Henry Boh 
TWENTY-SEVENTH 

If we knew the precious treasure which 
is hidden in our infirmities, we would 
receive them with the same joy that we 

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receive the greatest benefits, and we would 
bear them without complaining. 

St. Vincent de Paul 



TWENTY-EIGHTH 

The Cross can take the place of every- 
thing and nothing can take its place. 
He who suffers with patience has no 
need of any other means of salvation. 

Father Engelvin, Franciscan 

TWENTY-NINTH 

If the most ignorant men know the 
burdens that their poor horses or asses 
are able to carry and do not put on too 
heavy a load for fear of overpowering 
them, we cannot possibly have reflected, 
or we should not dare to say, that God 
Who is wisdom itself, and Who loves 
us with an infinite love, lays upon our 
shoulders a weight that is too heavy, or 
leaves us too long in the fire of tribulations. 

St. Ephrem 

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THIRTIETH 

O my God! I adore thy incomprehen- 
sible and eternal designs, to which I submit 
with all my heart; I desire, I accept them 
all, and unite my sacrifice to that of 
Jesus Christ my divine Saviour. 

Venerable Father Pignatelli 

THIRTY-FIRST 

Lead kindly light, amid the encircling 

gloom, lead Thou me on! 
The night is dark and I am far from home, 
Lead Thou me on! 

So long Thy power hath blest me, sure 

it still will lead me on, 
O'er moor and fen, o'er crag and torrent, 

till 

The night is gone; 
And with the morn those angel faces 

smile 
Which I have loved long since, and lost 

awhile. 

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E not therefore solicitous for 
tomorrow: for the morrow will 
be solicitous for itself. Suffi- 
cient for the day is the evil 
thereof. 

Matt. 6:34 

SECOND 

Be patient in tribulation, fervent in 
prayer and fearless in labor. 

St. Francis of Assisi 

THIRD 

Henceforth nothing can give me fear, 
neither wind or rain; and if great clouds 
hide from me the Light of Love, then 
will be the time of perfect joy, the time 
in which to push my confidence to its 
extreme limits . . . knowing that beyond 



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those clouds of sorrow my sweetest Sun 
is shining still. 

Soeur Thkrlse 
FOURTH 

What we suffer should be our own 
secret, this silence is pleasing to the 
Heart of Jesus. 

Venerable Mother Barat 
FIFTH 

f O surpassing loving kindness! Christ 
received the nails in His undefiled Hands 
and Feet, and endured anguish; while 
to me, without suffering or toil, by the 
fellowship of His pain, He vouchsafes 
salvation. 

St. Cyril 
SIXTH 

"Greater love than this no man hath, 
that a man lay down his life for a friend." 
This was the Baptist's privilege. Let it 
be ours to suffer readily and cheerfully 
the trials incident to the daily faithful 
service of the Master. 

Father J. H. O'Rourke, S.J. 



Whom the Lord Loveth August 

SEVENTH 

Do not look forward to the occurrences 
of this life with fear, but accept them 
with perfect confidence that, as they 
happen, God will perfect and deliver you. 

St. Francis de Sales 
EIGHTH 

Drive away sadness far from thee; 
for sadness hath killed many and there 
is no profit in it. 

Eccles. 30 : 24, 25 
NINTH 

Sorrow is life with an honest face. 
It is life looking what it is. Nevertheless 
there is the truest, the heavenliest of all 
joys in sorrow, because it detaches us from 
the world and draws us with such quiet, 
persuasive, irresistible authority to God. 

Father Faber 
TENTH 

If we courageously face sufferings, diffi- 
culties vanish and even pain becomes 
delightful. 

St. Teresa 

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ELEVENTH 

I never understood so well before the 
importance of seizing hold of all the 
little occasions one has for suffering, as 
of precious coin to be found only on this 
side of the grave, and with which one can 
buy such treasures for hereafter. 

Mother Henrietta Kerr 

TWELFTH 

How unhappy would I be, if I were not 
to suffer with Christ, since I am here 
below only to be purified by the Cross! 

Father de Lehen, S.J. 

THIRTEENTH 

God has pledged Himself to grant us 
not temporal but spiritual goods, goods 
necessary or conducive to our salvation; 
and when we see that God does not give 
them (the temporal favors) let us rest 
assured that He refuses them only be- 
cause He loves us, and because He sees 

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that what we ask would, if He were to 
give them to us, redound to our spiritual 
injury. 

St. Alphonsus Liguori 

FOURTEENTH 

My Lord and my Master! by Thy ardent 
love of Thy Heavenly Father, enable me 
to understand how affliction may intensify 
my love of God. 

Bishop Hedley 
FIFTEENTH 

One must never consider whence crosses 
come; they come from God. 

Curi d'Ars 

SIXTEENTH 

Love suffers and is resigned and the 
thoughts of Heaven grow more vivid as 
we get more detached from all on earth. 
Only a little more trust! A little more 
confidence in God! A little more patience 
and the end will come and the past weary 
years will seem as nothing. 

Blessed Theophane Venard 

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SEVENTEENTH 

Nothing short of suffering, except in 
rare cases, makes us what we should be. 
And we may be quite sure that unless 
we chasten ourselves, God will chasten us. 

Cardinal Newman 
EIGHTEENTH 

"Fear not" says Jesus to the timid, 
doubtful soul. "It is I, thy Saviour; 
I, thy light and thy salvation. Whom 
then canst thou fear? I am the protector 
of thy life. Of whom shalt thou be afraid? 
I am with thee. Fear not, it is I." 

Mgr. de la Bouillirie 
NINETEENTH 

In God's present providence the real 
worth and the real beauty of life only 
reach their full freshness and fruitfulness 
when they have been sown in tears. 

Father Kane, S.J. 
TWENTIETH 

For as God did more for poor Lazarus 
in helping him to die for hunger at the 
rich man's door, than if He had brought 

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him to the door all the rich man's dinner; 
so, though He be gracious to a man whom 
He delivereth out of painful trouble, 
yet doth He much more for a man if, 
through right painful death He deliver 
him from this wretched world into eternal 
bliss. 

Blessed Thomas More 

TWENTY-FIRST 

With Christ death is harmonious and 
continuous with all that has gone before, 
since it is the final movement of a life that 
is already dead with Christ, the last stage 
of a process of mortality and the stage 
that ends its pain. 

Mgr. Robert Hugh Benson 

TWENTY-SECOND 

Virtue and strength of soul grow and 
perfect themselves in ignominies, suffer- 
ings, affronts, sickness and even the 
dryness of soul which renders prayer 
bitter and painful. This is why you 
must not fear them, but love them with 

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courage as none of them can fail to bring 
us nearer to God. 

St. John oj the Cross 

TWENTY-THIRD 

O Lord my God, give me the unclouded 
faith that sees Thee and Thee alone in 
all that befalls me — in all events, in all 
joys and sorrows; in health and in sick- 
ness; in evil report and good report; 
in accidents, in disappointments, in weari- 
ness, in consolation, in interior trials. 

Mother M. Loyola 

TWENTY-FOURTH 

Our Lord Jesus Christ himself was not 
one hour of His life without suffering . . . 
and dost thou pretend to seek another 
way than this royal way, which is the 
way of the Holy Cross? 

Imitation, B. 2, Chap. XII 

TWENTY-FIFTH 

Woe to him who in the calmness of his 
heart can wish to die so long as he has 

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a sacrifice to make, a happiness to pro- 
cure, needs to care for or tears to wipe 

y " Madame Swetcbine 

TWENTY-SIXTH 

The Lord is my Shepherd and I shall 
want nothing. Though I should walk 
in the midst of the shadow of death, 
I will fear no evils; for Thou, O Lord, 
art with me; and Thy mercy will follow 
me all the days of my life. p t 

TWENTY-SEVENTH 

All the pleasures of the world, all the 

honey that can be gathered from the 

flowers of earth, are nothing in comparison 

with the sweetness which is caused by the 

gall and vinegar offered to Jesus Christ, 

that is, the hard and painful things 

endured for Jesus Christ and with Jesus 

Christ. o* t 

ot. Ignatius 

TWENTY-EIGHTH 

Why should we repine at the tribu- 
lations we now endure in the battlefield of 
life, since they are the raw material of 

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future glory? And why should we mur- 
mur that we are not rewarded here? 
It is better to wait till the warfare of 
life is over, when our fellow citizens will 
greet us in our future home and the 
great King will give us an unfading crown. 

Cardinal Gibbons 
TWENTY-NINTH 

We cannot quit the Cross without 
leaving Jesus Christ crucified. He and 
the Cross are inseparable. 

Fenelon 
THIRTIETH 
Hardest servitude has he 
That's jailed in arrogant liberty; 
And freedom, spacious and unflawed, 
Who is walled about with God. 

Francis Thompson 
THIRTY-FIRST 

It is by getting into the habit of bear- 
ing the little troubles, daily difficulties 
and numberless thorns of life that we will 
become capable of true courage on grand 

occasions. n L i c • _ T , 

Duchesne de oaxnt Leger 

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SEPTEMBER 

FIRST 

LESSED are they who suffer 
persecution for justice's sake 
for theirs is the kingdom of 
heaven. Blessed are you when 
men shall revile and persecute you and 
say all that evil against you untruly, 
for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding 
glad: because your reward is very great 
in Heaven. 

Matt. 5: 10, 11, 12 
SECOND 

The same God sanctified both Thabor 
and Calvary to make us understand the 
mysterious union that exists between 
ignominy and glory; they ought to be 
the same to us. We should remember 
that in consolation or temptation, God 
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He is always a Saviour, always great, 
always powerful, always turned towards 
us with infinite love. 

Phe de Ravignan 
THIRD 

Whom the Lord loveth He chastiseth. 
God dealeth with you as with His sons: 
for what son is there, whom the father 
does not correct? 

St. Paul 

FOURTH 

If we are in affliction, let us invoke 
Jesus, and He will console us. If we are 
tempted, let us invoke Jesus and He 
will give us strength to withstand all our 
enemies. If, lastly, we are in aridity 
and are cold in divine love, let us invoke 
Jesus and He will inflame our hearts. 

St. Alpbonsus Liguori 

FIFTH 

Mourning in the order of Providence 
is a call to holiness. Broken hearts are 

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prepared to receive God, just as hearts 
who receive God, being too small, must 
break. 

Mgr. Henry Bolo 
SIXTH 

It was after the Christ had wept over 
Jerusalem that He uttered some of His 
most august words; it was when His soul 
had been sorrowful unto death that His 
enemies fell prostrate before His voice. 
Who suffers conquers. 

Francis Thompson 
SEVENTH 

Rejoice often in the Lord your salvation 
and remember that it is profitable to 
suffer with resignation all the trials of 
life for a God who has suffered so much for 
us, and with so much love. 

EIGHTH St ' J ° bn °f tbe Cr ° SS 

As the flowers grow among thorns, 
so divine love increases better in the 
midst of tribulation than in the midst 
of comfort. 

St. Francis de Sales 

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NINTH 

Do thine own pleasure. Surely, Lord, 

Thou art full free to come and go, 
To lift my sorrow by a word 
Or pierce me with a sudden sword, 
And leave me sobbing in my woe. 

Mgr. Robert Hugh Benson 
TENTH 

The Cross is my sure salvation. The 
Cross I ever adore. The Cross of my 
Lord is with me. The Cross is my refuge. 

St. Thomas Aquinas 
ELEVENTH 

Life has many bitter, sad and weary 
hours, often it can scarcely be called 
existence. The little rivulets as well as 
the great rivers, all empty themselves 
into one source — the sea. God is an 
ocean of love and mercy. In Him alone 
is the fulness of joy. Patience and cour- 
age then! A little while and we shall be 
with Him. 

Blessed Theophane Venard 

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TWELFTH 

When God wishes to sanctify a soul, He 
separates it from the world by trials, and 
persecutions . . . He sends it infirmities, 
disease, interior trials which detach it 
and purify it from self love as tempests 
purify the atmosphere. 

Pere Eymard 
THIRTEENTH 

Nothing can happen but that which God 
pleaseth; and what that is, though it 
should seem evil to us, it is truly the best. 

Blessed Thomas More 
FOURTEENTH 

Jesus offers you a Cross, a very heavy 
cross and you are fearful lest you should 
weaken under it. Why? Did not our 
Beloved fall three times on the road to 
Calvary? Why should we not imitate 
our Heavenly Spouse? 

Soeur Therlse 
FIFTEENTH 

Is any of you sad? Let him pray. 

St. James the Great 

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SIXTEENTH 

My God, I unite my sacrifice to that 
of Jesus Christ, my divine Saviour; I ask 
in His Name, and through His infinite 
merits, patience in my trials, and perfect 
and entire submission to all that comes 
to me by Thy good pleasure. 

Venerable Giuseppe Maria Pignatelli, S.J. 

SEVENTEENTH 

God's arms are more closely folded 
round us in interior trials than in the 
sensible sweetness of His consoling visi- 
tations. 

Father Faber 

EIGHTEENTH 

He who is wronged and persecuted 
would rejoice rather than grieve if he 
reflected that Our Lord thus gave him 
an opportunity of acquiring more grace in 
a single day than perhaps he would in 
ten years by self chosen labors. 

St. Teresa 
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NINETEENTH 

Set thyself then, like a good and faith- 
ful servant of Christ, to bear manfully 
the Cross of thy Lord, crucified for love 
of thee. 

Imitation, B. 2, Chap. XII 



TWENTIETH 

Fear not therefore . . . any trouble 
that may come upon you, if trouble be 
God's will; trouble will but prove the 
simplicity of your devotion to Him. 
When our Lord walked on the sea, Peter 
went out to meet him, and "seeing the 
wind strong he was afraid." Doubt not 
that He, who caught the disciple by the 
hand, will appear to rescue you; doubt 
not that He who could tread the billows 
so securely can, self-sustained, bear any 
weight your weakness throws upon Him, 
and can be your immovable refuge and 
home amid the tossing and the tumult 
of the storm. 

Cardinal Newman 

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TWENTY-FIRST 

O good Master! I come to be crucified 
with Thee . . . and as I cannot see a 
single portion of Thy body sound, I wish 
to carry on every side of me the marks of 
Thy sufferings, that I may one day be 
clothed with Thy glorious resurrection. 

St. Bernard 
TWENTY-SECOND 

While depriving you of creatures, the 
Lord wishes that His dear Son should 
hold the place of all persons and things 

** * Pere Olier 

TWENTY-THIRD 

By how much the more a man dies to 
himself, by so much more he lives to God. 

St. Catherine oj Siena 
TWENTY-FOURTH 

O Jesus! You are my true Friend, 
my only Friend. You take a part in all 
my misfortunes, You take them on your- 
self, You know how to change them into 
blessings. 

Venerable Claude de la Colombiere 9 S.J. 

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TWENTY-FIFTH 

Who is there without a Cross? Happy 
the souls that know how to appreciate 
those which Jesus presents to them in 
order to draw them more closely to Himself. 

Father Barelle 
TWENTY-SIXTH 

He who wishes to keep his love for 
Jesus Christ ought always to represent 
Him to himself hanging on the Cross, 
and dying there for love of us. 

St. Bonaventure 
TWENTY-SEVENTH 

Lord! O Love divine! 
Once more I follow Thee! 

Let me abide so near Thy side 
That I Thy face may see. 

1 clasp Thy pierced Hand, 

O Thou Who diest for me! 
Til bear Thy Cross through pain and loss, 
So let me cling to Thee. 

Father Ryan 

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TWENTY-EIGHTH 

Earthly life is full of sadness; the more 
the heart is loving and religious the more 
susceptible it is to inexpressible melan- 
choly; it is an exile on this earth and 
feels it at each step . . . and it calls 
with anguish for the Infinite and the 
Eternal. 

Pere Didon 
TWENTY-NINTH 

Tribulations endured for the sake of 
Jesus Christ ought to be counted among 
God's greatest blessings. 

St. Ignatius 
THIRTIETH 

Fear not, for He is near Who loves 
you,] Who loves you always and Who 
loves you most. 

Father Kane, S.J. 



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O B E R 




FIRST 

JND bearing his own cross, He 
went forth to that place which 
is called Calvary, but in He- 
brew Golgotha. 

John 19 : 17 
SECOND 

Holy Virgin, have pity on those who 
loved each other and have been separated. 
Have pity on loneliness of heart. Have 
pity on the weakness of our faith. Have 
pity on those we love. Have pity on 
those who weep, on those who pray, on 
those who fear, give to all hope and 
peace. Amen. 

Abbe Perreyve 
THIRD 

Without struggle we should have no 
crown. Without sorrow we should have 



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no sympathy. Without trust in trial 
we should never have the peace or glory 
of love that has been proven and is tri- 
umphant. 

Father Kane, S.J. 
FOURTH 

Our joy depends upon the Cross, and 
Our Lord would not enter into His glory 
save by the way of bitterness. He leads 
you by the same path as the saints. 
Do not shrink from it, I beseech you, 
but be patient, yield to Him, ask Him 
to follow His will and not yours. 

St. Vincent de Paul 
FIFTH 

A great temporal trial is certainly 
intended by God to be used by us for a 
spiritual gain. 

Cardinal Vaughan 
SIXTH 

Good Lord, give me grace in all my 
fear and agony, to have recourse to that 
great fear and wonderful agony that 
Thou, my sweet Saviour, hadst at the 

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Mount of Olivet before Thy most bitter 
passion, and in the meditation thereof 
to conceive ghostly comfort and con- 
solation profitable to my soul. 

Blessed Thomas More 
(Prayer after having been condemned to death) 

SEVENTH 

We ought to accept illness as a gift 

from our Creator and God, for it is no less 

a gift than health. Cx T 

& ot. Ignatius 

EIGHTH 

"Fear not," does He say to the just 

soul, "it is I, I, who try thee sometimes, 

it is true, but only to increase thy merit; 

I who chasten thee often because I love 

thee; I who in Heaven will be thy reward 

exceeding great. Fear not, It is I." . . . 

What could be a more unshaken support, 

a stronger assurance of safety, amid 

the dangers by which we are surrounded, 

the trials to which we are exposed, than 

this pledge of His love, this promise of 

His abiding presence among us. 

Mgr. de la Bouillerie 

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NINTH 

There is no sign more certain that 
one is of the number of the elect than, 
while leading a christian life, to be the 
subject of sufferings, desolation and trials. 

TFNTM ^' Louis Gonzaga 

Let us follow Jesus Christ carrying 

His Cross and painfully climbing the 

mountain of Calvary. Let us accompany 

Him with Mary, the holy women and 

Simon the Cyrenean. , 

J Fere hymard 

ELEVENTH 

Peace here below consists, not in being 
free from tribulations, but in the accep- 
tation of them. r, 7 

benelon 

TWELFTH 

How good it is to be with Jesus crucified ! 
I will make three tabernacles here: one 
in His hands, another in His feet, and a 
third in the wound of His side where I 
may watch and repose, read and sleep, 

pray and do everything. Cx D 

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THIRTEENTH 

Oh! I am glad to come to Thee 

My only rest, 
To lay my weary head awhile 

Upon Thy breast, 
To bring the burden of my grief 

Hither to Thee, 
And feel, O Jesus, Son of Man, 

Thy sympathy. 

Mother M. Loyola 

FOURTEENTH 

Believe then, O children of the new 
alliance! that when God sends you afflic- 
tions, He wishes to break the bonds 
which attach you to the world and to 
recall you to your true country. 

Bossuet 

FIFTEENTH 

It is only the devil and his followers 
who ought to be sad; we, on the contrary, 
should always rejoice in the Lord. 

St. Francis of Assisi 

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SIXTEENTH 

Let us not speak ill of the Cross, it 
has been sent to us to warn us, to detach 
us from the earth, to lead us to our end. 
Let us leave it only to cast ourselves 
into God. We have much need of suffer- 
ing, let us suffer well. 

Pere de Ravignan 
SEVENTEENTH 

Truly since God is able and understands 
how to draw good from evil, for whom 
will He be disposed to do so, if not for 
those who give themselves unreservedly 
to Him. 

St. Francis de Sales 
EIGHTEENTH 

My God, I thank Thee for having 
given me a glimpse of the sweetness of 
Thy consolation. I thank Thee for having 
deprived me of them. All Thou doest 
is good and just. I bless Thee in my 
indigence. I desire nothing except that 
Thy will be done. 

General de Sonis 

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NINETEENTH 

What is a Christian if he cannot submit 
to an affront for Christ's sake? When 
you are injured, smile at the injuries 
you receive. 

St. Alphonsus Liguori 

TWENTIETH 

The dead do not come back again. 
There were figures in the picture once 
which are missing now. The years rob 
us as they pass. One by one men and 
things are missing. God alone is never 
missing. 

Father Faber 

TWENTY-FIRST 

Never would God permit us to suffer 
if the mystery of our salvation could 
have its source elsewhere than in the 
mystery of our sufferings. Nowhere can 
the good Shepherd find His lost sheep 
but in that hedge of thorns which is 
called trial. 

Abbe Henry Bolo 

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TWENTY-SECOND 

I desire, O Lord, to live here always 
conformed to your Passion, and to find 
pain and suffering my repose and delight. 

St. Catherine of Siena 

TWENTY-THIRD 

How little worthy of My love thou art! 
Whom wilt Thou find to love ignoble thee, 
Save Me, save only Me? 

Francis Thompson 

TWENTY-FOURTH 

I rejoice with exceeding great joy in 
the midst of my tribulations. I am as 
sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as needy, 
yet enriching many, as having nothing, 
yet possessing all things. 

St. Paul, Romans 

TWENTY-FIFTH 

We shall probably discover that we 
owe a heavier debt of gratitude to God for 
the trials we have endured than for the 

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comforts we have enjoyed. For how 
many more are drawn towards Him by 
sufferings than by consolations! 

Cardinal Gibbons 
TWENTY-SIXTH 

I know a fountain where, after having 
drunk one still thirsts, but with a very 
sweet thirst which one can always satisfy; 
this fountain is the suffering which is 
known to Jesus only. 

Soeur Therese 

TWENTY-SEVENTH 

The real means of obtaining what we 
need from God is to ask Him, not what 
we wish for, but what He wishes for us. 

St. John of the Cross 

TWENTY-EIGHTH 

In the Cross is infusion of heavenly 
sweetness, in the Cross is strength of 
mind, in the Cross joy of spirit, in the 
Cross the height of virtue; in the Cross 
the perfection of sanctity. There is no 

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salvation of the soul, nor hope of ever- 
lasting life, but in the Cross. 

Imitation, B 2, Chap. XII 

TWENTY-NINTH 

The Son of God has accomplished our 
salvation by means of sufferings. He 
would by this teach us that there is no 
means more proper to glorify God and 
to sanctify our souls than to suffer. 

St. Teresa 
THIRTIETH 

Mass itself hardly "shows the Lord's 
death" more clearly than suffering that is 
received for His sake. 

Mgr. Robert Hugh Benson 
THIRTY-FIRST 

"My Saviour! I cheerfully accept all 
the painful dispositions in which it is 
Thy pleasure to place me. My wish is in 
all things to conform myself to Thy Holy 
will. Whenever I kiss Thy Cross, it is 
to show that I submit perfectly to mine. 

Blessed Margaret Mary 
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NOVEMBER 




FIRST 

T behoved Christ to suffer, 
and to rise again from the dead, 
and so to enter into His glory. 

St. Luke 24: 46 
SECOND 

Let mourners weep and show their 
grief; let them find consolation in tears: 
but let them not forget to come, with 
still greater zeal, to the aid of the de- 
parted, by the Holy Sacrifice, by prayer 
and almsdeeds. 

St. Chrysostom 
THIRD 

Such too is the Christian's slumber 
under the sign of the Cross, which the 
world calls death. Ah! look behind the 
veil, it is not death but slumber. Softly 
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folding their white wings about you and 
whispering, lullaby. Your Mother is 
standing there straight in front of you 
looking at you with her smile so sweet, 
bidding you sleep. Do you know that 
gentle hands are on your brow, hands 
that were pierced by nails, lovingly closing 
your eyelids? Look up once before you 
sleep, and at your head, guarding you 
strongly and well, see your smiling Saviour. 
Sleep gently, sleep; it is not death but 
slumber. Oh! the awakening! you are at 
home! At home forever with Christ and 
His dear Mother. For ever at home in 
their sweet home! 

Father Kane, S.J. 
FOURTH 

There are other afflictions which God 
permits of His goodness, because they 
preserve those who suffer them from 
greater misfortunes. Some make their 
purgatory here, in sickness, poverty and 
adversity, and thus avoid far greater 
pains. 

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FIFTH 

O good Cross — that from the dear 
Body of my Lord didst gain becomingness 
and grace; O well beloved Cross, O long 
desired, O tenderly cherished Cross. . . . 
Faithfully I have sought thee. . . . Now 
at last, made ready for my eager soul, 
do thou sweet Cross, take me from the 
midst of men and bring me to my Master 
that by thee, dear Cross, He may receive 
me, Who by thee did redeem me. 

St. Andrew 
SIXTH 

Those who die in grace go no further 
from us than God, and God is very near. 

Father Russell, S.J. 
SEVENTH 

Are you visited by the Cross? Wel- 
come it as a friend; you will find in it 
a wellspring of spiritual blessings. Are 
you bent upon winning a soul? Suffer 
for it. 

Venerable Mother Barat 

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EIGHTH 

By our resignation in suffering, we shall 
so expiate our sins here, that the fire of 
Purgatory will frad little material to feed 

upon hereafter. c ; A 

r ot. Augustine 

NINTH 

Why shouldst thou fear the beautiful 
angel, Death 
Who waits thee at the portals of the 

oJS*lCo. • • • 

He whom thou fearest will, to ease its pain 
Lay his cold hand upon thy aching heart: 

Will soothe the terrors of thy troubled brain, 
And bid the shadow of earth's grief 

P " Adelaide Procter 

TENTH 

Oh! after a weary life is there still to 
be another weary waiting for our deliver- 
ance and our rest? If we must burn, 
let it be with the fire of love now, not with 
the fires of chastisement hereafter. 

Father Faber 
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ELEVENTH 

Give me, good Lord, a longing to be 
with Thee, not for the avoiding of the 
calamities of this wretched world, nor so 
much for the avoiding of the pains of 
purgatory nor the pains of hell either, 
nor so much for the attaining of the 
joys of heaven in respect to my own 
commodity, as even for a very love of 
Thee. 

Blessed Thomas More 

TWELFTH 

If thou carry the Cross willingly it 
will carry thee, and bring thee to thy 
desired end; to wit, to that place where 
there will be an end of suffering, though 
here there will be none. 

Imitation, B 2, Chap. XII 
THIRTEENTH 

No, I will not prefer one thing to 
another, a thousand times no, because 
that would be my will and I only wish to 
do God's will. I suffer, I am in tribu- 
lations. What do I care? It is God's 

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will being accomplished in me. I am 
hurt, crushed, never mind! God wills 
it, I will it too. I accept, I see but one 
thing, God's will. 

Fire de Ravignan 
FOURTEENTH 

The least pain we may have to suffer 
in Purgatory is much greater than any 
pains we can imagine as possible in this 
world. 

St. Anselm 
FIFTEENTH 

The School of Suffering is the School of 
Christ and happy they who study in it. 

Cardinal Vaughan 
SIXTEENTH 

For though I should walk in the midst 
of the shadow of death I will fear no evil 
for Thou art with me. Thy rod and thy 
staff have comforted me. Thou hast 
prepared a table for me against them that 
afflict me. Thou hast anointed my head 
with oil, and my chalice which inebriateth 
me, how goodly it is! p5a/m ^ 

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SEVENTEENTH 

It is too great an honor, O King of 
Glory to drink with Thee the chalice of 
sorrow; may it never happen to me to 
refuse this draught, because, O God, 
says David, it is the beverage of thy 
beloved. 

St. Francis de Sales 
EIGHTEENTH 

Pray! yes, pray! for God is sweet — 
O my God! woe are we! 

When we kneel down at His feet — 
Woe are we! Woe are we! 

With our crosses and our cares. 
He will calm the tortured breast, 
He will give the troubled rest — 
And the dead he watchest best. 

Father Ryan 
NINETEENTH 

Let us leave our dear Lord and Master 
to direct our future; our only business 
is to strive to correspond with His grace 
as far as we possibly can. 

Blessed Theophane Venard 
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TWENTIETH 

When we suffer we can make known 
our pain. But the souls in Purgatory 
cannot speak. We do not know what 
they suffer. Let us try to relieve them. 

Mother Margaret 
of the Most Blessed Sacrament 

TWENTY-FIRST 

God does us great honor when He is 

pleased that we should tread the same 

road which was trodden by His only 

begotten Son. c* d i t *l r 

& St. Paul oj the Cross 

TWENTY-SECOND 

One tear of the heart over the Passion 
of our blessed Lord! How much fire 
of purgatory has it the power to quench. 

Father Faber 

TWENTY-THIRD 

Death is the beautiful moment of human 

Plre Lacordaire 

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Whom the Lord Loveth November 

TWENTY-FOURTH 

Let us, with Purgatory in view, suffer 
with joy, or at least with patience, all 
the evils, the misfortunes, and the trials 
of this life. Sl Augustine 

TWENTY-FIFTH 

The gate of death, viewed from the 
supernatural side, is an entrance and not 
an ending, a beginning and not a close. 
Death, when he comes, draws not only 
the survivors closer together, but even 
those whom he seems to have separated. 
He does not bring consternation and 
terror and disunion, but he awakens 
hope and tenderness, he smooths away 
old differences, he explains old misunder- 
standings. Mgr# Roben Hugh Benson 

TWENTY-SIXTH 

What a privilege from Jesus! How 
much He must love us to send us such 
great grief! . . . Let us be more than 
resigned, let us embrace the Cross with 

'* Soeur Therese 

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TWENTY-SEVENTH 

For death is but a tenderness, 

A shadow, that unclouded Love 
Hath fashioned in its own excess 
Of radiance from above. 

Father Tabb 
TWENTY-EIGHTH 

Indeed, the behavior of this adorable 

Providence towards those whom it has 

determined to admit most quickly, after 

this life, to the possession of eternal 

happiness is to purify them in this world 

by so much the greater sufferings and 

trials. o. t 

ot. Ignatius 

TWENTY-NINTH 

Let us conclude then that persons af- 
flicted with scruples are the most favored 
by divine love and the surest to arrive 

to heaven. D7 j TT 

Blessed Henry ouso 

THIRTIETH 

Which of the dead have avoided hell? 
Those and those only, who on earth took 
up their cross. Father Faber 

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FIRST 




N the world ye shall have 
distress. But have confidence. 
I have overcome the world.' ' 
John 16 : 33 



SECOND 

Shall we who gave Him that heavy 

Cross to bear, and kept weighting it after 

we had given it as if our cruelty were 

not satisfied, refuse to bear the sweet, 

grace-giving crosses which He binds on 

us, so little too, as when we have borne 

them for awhile we are forced to confess 

they are. 17 .l r? l 

J Father raber 

THIRD 

Aim rather at abject and difficult 
things than at those which are easier 
and more brilliant. Welcome generously 



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all manner of sufferings for the love of 

Jesus Christ and be persuaded that in 

loving Him thus, one receives ineffable 

consolations. o* r l r *l s* 

ot. John oj the Cross 

FOURTH 

My Lord and my Master, Thou didst 

suffer and suffer far more than this. 

To Thee suffering was familiar, Thou didst 

choose it for Thy lot and Thy inheritance 

and I, I dread and refuse it! By Thy 

loving acceptance of pain give me the 

courage to accept all I have to suffer. 

FIFTH Bishop Hedley 

Do not lose your time. Do not refuse 
one fragment of the cross. Go to the 
place on Calvary where God wills you 
to be. Pray and ask that God's sovereign 
will may be accomplished. p> ry i 

SIXTH 

And our dim eyes ask a beacon, and our 

weary feet a guide, 
And our hearts of all life's mysteries seek 

the meaning and the key; 

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And a cross gleams o'er our pathway — 

on it hangs the Crucified 
And He answers all our yearnings by the 

whisper, "Follow me." 

Father Ryan 
SEVENTH 

Hence I am determined to leave all 
to Thee, taking no part therein save by 
keeping myself in peace in Thy arms, 
desiring nothing except as Thou incitest 
me to desire, to will, to wish. 

St. Jane Frances de Chantal 
EIGHTH 

Our Lord never asks of us a sacrifice 
which is above our strength. But some- 
times it is true He makes us feel all the 
bitterness of the Chalice which He pre- 
sents to our soul. S(£Ur TUrhe 

NINTH 

One "Blessed be God" in the time of 
adversity is worth more than "I thank 
you" said a thousand times in prosperity. 

St. John oj Avila 



Whom the Lord Loveth December 

TENTH 

What are those heavy rains of tribu- 
lation that fall upon us but the refreshing 
waters that quicken and revive the seed 
of faith in our soul, and make it grow into 
fruit of sanctification. 

Cardinal Gibbons 

ELEVENTH 

When adversity tries us, it enlightens 
the soul with superior light, it detaches 
us from earth and rouses us to seek a 
higher dwelling in Heaven, it takes from 
us every wish which has not Jesus, and 
Jesus Crucified, for its object, Whose 
grace fastens us to the Cross now, that 
we may afterwards rise with Him. 

St. Ignatius 

TWELFTH 

My God! all that Thou dost will, as 
Thou dost will, and because Thou dost 
will it. 

Mother Margaret 
of the Most Blessed Sacrament 

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Whom the Lord hoveth December 

THIRTEENTH 

Ah! God tries us only that we may 
attain perfection and this for the holiest 
and noblest end that can be conceived, 
His own honor and glory. 

Father de Lehen, S.J. 
FOURTEENTH 

All suffering is bearable when one suffers 
with Jesus Christ. Suffering! what does 
it matter? ... it lasts but a minute. 

Curl d'Ars 
FIFTEENTH 

God wist that it was nothing meet the 
servant to stand in better condition than 
his Master. And therefore would He not 
suffer, that while He came to His own 
Kingdom not without travail and pain, 
His servants should be slothful and sit and 
pick their nails, and be carried up to 
Heaven at their ease; but biddeth every 
man that will be His disciple or servant 
take up his cross upon his back and there- 
with come and follow Him. 

Blessed Thomas More 

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SIXTEENTH 

Be strong to bear, O heart! 

Nothing is vain: 
Strive not, for life is care, 
And God sends pain; 
Heaven is above and there 
Rest will remain. 

Adelaide Procter 
SEVENTEENTH 

How happy is the soul which says: 
"Here I am, Lord. Do as it pleases Thee 
with me and all that is mine." 

St. Teresa 
EIGHTEENTH 

O Jesus, you listen to me with the 
greatest kindness when I relate my troubles 
to you, and you have always balm to 
pour on my wounds. I find You every- 
where. You never go away. 

Ven. Claude de la Colombiere 

NINETEENTH 

Yet all our peace in this miserable life 
is rather to be placed in humble suffering 
than in not feeling adversities. He who 

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knows how to suffer will enjoy much 
peace. Such a one is conqueror of him- 
self, and lord of the world, a friend of 
Christ and heir to Heaven. 

Imitation, B 2, Chap. IV 

TWENTIETH 

Let us commit the success of our efforts 
to God, and be ready to accept failure 
if God judges it more suitable to His 
designs and more profitable to our souls. 

Father Ramiere, S.J. 

TWENTY-FIRST 

The Cross engenders no sadness, nay, 
it gives joy when it is carried with patience 
and filial submission. 

Mgr. Dupont of Tours 

TWENTY-SECOND 

He bids you take up your cross; there- 
fore accept the daily opportunities which 
occur of yielding to others, when you need 
not yield, and of doing unpleasant services, 
which you might avoid. Learn to master 
your heart when it would burst forth 

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into vehemence, or prolong a barren 
sorrow, or dissolve into an unseasoned 
tenderness. 

Cardinal Newman 
TWENTY-THIRD 

Lord, increase my sufferings and with 
them increase Thy love in my heart. 

St. Rose of Lima 
TWENTY-FOURTH 

The soul that loves God burns with 
the desire to please Him; but as long 
as its actions cost it but little it feels 
that it is accomplishing nothing for the 
Beloved. The loving heart desires to 
suffer for the Beloved One, and hence 
the exquisite joy of sacrifice. 

Abbe A. Sandreau 
TWENTY-FIFTH 

Let us therefore live and die with the 
One who has come to show us the true way 
to Heaven and let us fear nothing unless 
it be not to finish our sacrifice on the 
same altar as He did His. 

Flnelon 

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Whom the Lord hoveth December 

TWENTY-SIXTH 

The humiliations of the Cross are sweet 

to a soul which is sensible of what she 

owes to Him Who was crucified for 

the love of her. Cx D , 

St. Bernard 

TWENTY-SEVENTH 

Let us place all our trust in Jesus 
alone, whatever contrary sensible im- 
pressions may arise. Relying on this 
foundation, it is no presumption to feel 
ourselves stronger than earth and hell; 
and the greater the confidence, the more 
it honors Jesus Christ, and the more it 
desposes His goodness to succor us in all 

our needs. r? j c • or 

rawer Sunn, S.J. 

TWENTY-EIGHTH 

Blessed be the God and Father of our 
Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies 
and the God of all consolation. Who 
comforteth us in all our tribualtion, that 
we also may be able to comfort those 
who are in any distress by the exhortation 
wherewith we also are exhorted by God. 

St. Paul 

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W&om the Lord hoveth December 

TWENTY-NINTH 

I do not lean on my own strength, 
but on the strength of Him Who, on the 
Cross, has vanquished the powers of hell. 

Blessed TMophane Venard 
THIRTIETH 

Be assured that we shall obtain more 
grace and merit in one day by suffering 
patiently the afflictions which come to us 
from God or from our neighbor than we 
could acquire in ten years by morti- 
fication and other exercises which are of 

our own choice. c * z? • j c i 

ot. Francis de bales 

THIRTY-FIRST 

God will not perish and we are with God. 
Let the Christ sleep, on the sea, in the 
storm! Believe! He is the Divine Giver 
of your life! Trust! He is the Human 
Lover of your soul. Let the Christ 
sleep! In His own good time He will 
arise and bring back to our tempest 
tossed hearts a great calm. 

Father Kane, S.J. 

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